Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 545 Centennial Shandong ([-])
Winter of 340 Years of Yan State (550 Years)
Jade Rabbit City (Gwangju, South Korea)

After repeated quarrels, the new capital of Yan State was chosen in Yutu City.

The old capital of Yan was dilapidated and unsuitable to be the political center of the country. However, various forces were arguing about the choice of the new capital.

Yan Ji actually wanted to use Xingfan City as the capital of the country, but Xingfan City is too far away from the most prosperous area of ​​Yan Kingdom, and far away from the Central Plains, which is not conducive to the exchanges between Yan Kingdom and the Central Plains.

The guilds don't want the capital to be in their own city, but at the same time they want the capital to be relatively close to their city, so that their industry will not be taken over by the capital, and they can develop faster by taking advantage of the proximity.

The nobles have the same idea. They don't want the new kingdoms to be built on their fiefs, but also want the new kingdoms to be closer to their fiefdoms, so that they can develop faster while retaining the fiefdoms.

In the end, choose from the left to the right, and only Yutu City is suitable, and the vast majority of representatives also agree to establish Yutu City as the capital.

To the south of Yutu City is Chang'e City, to the southwest is Youchao City, to the north is Suiren City, and to the east is Busan City.

It can be said that, except for Liaodong, which has been developed the longest, the most elite and richest cities in the entire Yan Kingdom are all around Yutu City.

Since then, Yutu City has been renamed Yandu, also known as Xindu, and the old Yandu has been renamed Old Yancheng, also known as Jiudu.

The old capital has become ruins, and it will be difficult to restore it in a short time. It will exist as a military base of Yan State in the future.

After regaining Liaodong, Yan Ji was not in a hurry to counterattack Shandong, nor was he in a hurry to avenge the Northern Expedition to Goguryeo. Instead, he blocked all the gates to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of them. For a long time to come, Yan will adopt a national policy of recuperation.

The first is the construction of the palace of Yutu City, followed by the reconstruction of the old capital, and then the adjustment of official positions.

As Yan State moved its capital to Yutu City in Sanhan, the strategic center of Yan State also shifted from Liaodong to overseas.

After the center of power was moved to the new Yandu, the Second Great Council was held accordingly.

This time in the parliament, with the consent of the vast majority, the [Wildland Reclamation Act] was amended, stipulating that anyone can spend money to exempt land reclamation labor.

At the same time, stricter and clearer legal provisions on land reclamation were enacted to prevent the government from randomly arresting people to land reclamation as before.

The new "land reclamation law" clearly stipulates that only those who commit the crime of capital crime or exile can be reduced to land reclamation slaves, and other convictions cannot be forced to land reclamation.

In order to distinguish them from the representatives of the nobility, the representatives of the civilian parliament are also called representatives of public opinion.

Huang Zongxi became the head of Yan people's opinion representatives, and had the right to personally review the official documents of Shangshutai, just like Jiuqing.

There are also some nobles who are dissatisfied, but this reform still fully takes care of the privileges of the nobles, but before the nobles can punish the people at will, now after the nobles punish the people, the people have the right to spend money to get rid of crimes, and at the same time have the right to raise objections, that's all.

If it is a common people without money, it is naturally the same as before, how to be oppressed or how to be oppressed.

The purpose of Yan Ji's reform this time is to stabilize the dissatisfaction of the nobles while satisfying the demands of the guilds.

As a man sandwiched between nobles and guilds, he needs to handle everything carefully, and must not let the civil war happen again.

Lao Tzu said that "governing a big country is like cooking a small fish", which is the truth.

It's not that Yan Ji wants such a system, but the actual development of society makes him have to choose such a system.

It was Qin's domestic and foreign troubles that forced Qin Xiaogong to rule the country by Shang Yang's laws, not how much Qin Xiaogong really liked Shang Yang's laws to rule the country from the beginning.

Facing Huang Zongxi, the spokesman for the interests of the guild, some nobles suggested to Yan Ji to kill Huang Zongxi directly.

But being rejected by Yan Ji, it was not because he had any special feelings for Huang Zongxi, but because he understood that Huang Zongxi was not the key point, but the key point was the guild forces, large and small, that had developed within Yan State.

Each class group will have its own mouthpiece and spokesperson for interests. If one Huang Zongxi is killed, the guilds will also elect a new Huang Zongxi to speak for them, and with the lessons learned from the past, the new Huang Zongxi will be more concealed, more difficult to deal with, and more difficult to cooperate with.

A stupid ruler will only use power to kill opponents, while a wise ruler knows how to use power to cooperate with opponents and slowly subtly influence opponents.

Killing Lin Zhi was perhaps Yan's biggest mistake.

When Lin Zhi was alive, everyone regarded him as a clown, but after Lin Zhi was killed by the Wang family, he seemed to be a saint, worshiped by many people, and his ideas gradually spread.

Another month later, Yan Ji was elected by the aristocratic council as the new generation of Yan Jun, and re-established the national policy.

The new national policy is generally a strategic contraction. First, it is to temporarily abandon the Shandong Road and make every effort to recuperate. Second, it is to build more forts and watchtowers in the north of Liaodong, and adopt a defensive strategy against Goguryeo.

However, guarding against Goguryeo is only incidental. Yan Ji and the nobles of Yan State still put the construction of Shanhaiguan as the first priority of national defense.

Although the Central Plains and Goguryeo are both enemies of the Yan State, in comparison, the Central Plains are obviously more of a threat to the Yan State.

To defend against Goguryeo, but mainly against the Central Plains, against guilds, but mainly against Wang Ting.

Compared with the threat of guild rebels, the nobles of the Wang family were more afraid of another Wang Ting appearing in their family.

Even though Goguryeo has ravaged Liaodong twice and attacked Yan's vassal states many times, the nobles of Yan still regard the Central Plains as their main enemy and Goguryeo as their secondary enemy.

Goguryeo's growth is nothing more than robbing some wealthy people and capturing a few cities at most, but if the Central Plains grows strong, it will have to fight desperately with Yan.

The aristocratic families in the Central Plains also had a similar idea. They wanted to guard against the Hu people, but mainly against the Emperor Wu of the Han.

Yan State was plundered by Goguryeo in Liaodong, but Yan State's response was to immediately strengthen the construction of Shanhaiguan to prevent the Central Plains from entering Liaodong to wreak havoc like Goguryeo.

At the same time, when Yan Ji was in charge of national defense construction and recuperation.

Qufu City

the Kongs
"Yan Guo seems to be planning to give up Shandong Road?"

"Then where should we go?"

"Really want to surrender to Qi?"

"It's time to take out the "Letter of Surrender" we wrote to the State of Qi, and burn the "Letter of Surrender" to the State of Yan as soon as possible."

"Will the Gao family retain our privileges in Qufu?"

"Of course, our Confucian family is the representative of Confucian scholars in the world, and it is a plaque representing the culture of the Central Plains. As long as the Gao family wants to win the support of scholars in the Central Plains, he has to give us preferential treatment."

"We don't need to care about who is the master of the world, we only need to care about whether there is a place for our Kong family under the rule of the new dynasty."

The members of the Kong family were discussing the future of the family. When they knew that Yan State was planning to give up Shandong Road, they finally made up their minds to surrender to Qi State Gao Yang.

(End of this chapter)